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MicroBrew-7: Virtual Golf & Harmons Half Day Hazy IPA · Brew Tox with Scott & Scott

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  Welcome to another microbrew version of Brew Talks with Scott
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  and Scott. Every now and then we have some
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  interesting extra material that just doesn't fit in with our
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  regular Brew Tox episodes. We call these short segments
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  Micro Brews. We hope you enjoyed listening.
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  Well, hello everyone. I'm sitting here with my friend
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  John, and John and I have just played nine holes of virtual
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  golf. At Bandon Dunes.
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  At Bandon Dunes and so this could be a tastings from afar,
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  given that we're coming to you from Bandon Dunes.
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  And we decided after nine holes it was time for a beer and I
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  talked to John about it and he's willing to try out the Harmons
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  half day hazy IPA, non alcoholic beer.
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  So I'm going to crack and John, we're going to give it a taste.
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  Sounds good. There we go cracking.
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  And why don't you tell me what you see when it comes out of the
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  can? Little bit of a head on it, but
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  not too much. Yeah, it looks just about right.
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  Looks about right. The colour looks nice, nice
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  amber golden. Looks like a hazy, doesn't it?
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  Well, cheers. Cheers, let's have a taste.
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  Ah, what do you notice of that? Nice and tart, but it actually
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  tastes good, so. You know, the first thing that
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  came up for me was the aroma or the smell of it and it.
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  And it definitely has the hazy kind of yeah.
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  Bit of hoppy. Yep.
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  That's the flavor to. It yeah.
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  And one of the things I noticed about this beer, we've been
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  taste testing quite a few and many of them are like around the
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  50 calories range. This one's around 70.
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  And when if you compare it to the hazies that you drink
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  normally, would you say it has a similar taste, a different?
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  Taste pretty similar. I don't really.
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  I missed the bus that I don't didn't miss the taste of the
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  alcohol really good. Yeah.
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  I mean, I think that that's the the one of the differences that
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  we found is that, you know, that there is a fairly similar taste.
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  Unlike some of the others that we've tasted though, I don't
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  find this to be significantly lighter than than the hazy beers
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  that I like. Yeah, and I had lots of non
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  alcoholic beers like the Corona and the Budweiser and bowls and
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  I think, but I haven't really found any that I they are really
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  good, not bad. But this one actually I would.
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  I would buy a six pack of this. Cool.
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  So harm's I'm sure will be happy to hear that.
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  I would too have a a scale that we've been using, so A1 is.
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  I'd throw this in my plant planter but I'd be afraid of
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  killing the plants. So that's 1/2 is This is like
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  the old old duels, like the really first time alcoholic
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  beers. 3 is no, I'm not gonna throw it out, but I'm not gonna
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  run out and buy it. 4 is kind of like, wow, why even bother with
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  alcohol? You know what I mean?
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  Tastes great, but as it is. And five is Hall of Fame beer.
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  So on that scale, what would you give?
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  It give it a four. Yeah, I would.
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  Yeah. You don't want to give it a
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  five. I need room to grow, but it's
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  fairly tasty. I would I like it as it hauling
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  beer is. Good.
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  Yeah, No, this is, I haven't had this one before.
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  I've had several others that. From the US are where's it?
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  From Yeah, that's a really good question.
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  I'm not sure where Harmans is from, Don't have my reading
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  glasses. Well, no, it's it's Toronto.
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  Toronto. I'm not that mad at Ontario.
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  Yeah, and, and I'm not familiar with the a Harmons craft beer.
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  I'm gonna have to do some research and find out if they
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  have alcohol beers as well. But they certainly make a darn
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  good hazy IPA. And as I say, 70 calories and
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  it's a 12 ounce can and highly recommended by both John and I
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  would both give it a, a Yeah, why need the alcohol?
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  So we can get this from Ontario because it's not an alcoholic
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  beer? Because I think getting alcohol
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  from Ontario is a problem, right?
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  Or at least. Beer and wine, you know, that's
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  a really good question. Now you have to research that
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  and find out what's going on with that.
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  But I don't know at this point. But I do know that there are a
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  lot of craft beers coming in here from Quebec and Ontario in
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  particular. And and also there's a number of
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  of German alcohol free beers that you can buy in Canada now
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  too. That doesn't sound very German
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  at all. Well, you know, interestingly
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  enough, but we found out that 8 to 10% of all of all beer sales
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  in Germany are non alcoholic now.
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  Wow. Yeah, it's good.
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  So we really enjoyed it. Crisp, nice spear that goes down
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  easily. And I think Carmen has a hit on
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  their hand with this hazy IPA. Give it a try folks.
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  Alright, thanks for your time today, John.
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  Welcome as always, come back and hear more stories and more tales
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  from the boys and futons and Scott and Scott.
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  Until next time. Harmons Half Day Hazy IPA is
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  brewed by Harmons Craft Brewing. Toronto Brew talks Original
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